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Comment by bsder

6 days ago

Access to a CNC mill and a CNC lathe should be a fundamental right.

Being CNC with an enclosure mitigates 99+% of all the safety issues and makes them 1000% more useful. With CNC, the most harmful injury is likely to be a broken bone because you're only in the envelope with servos active but not the spindle. With manual, the spindle or chuck can grab you and kill you or send shrapnel into you.

And I really wish we had a good, open source pick and place. Those still can't handle 0201 components and higher density BGAs even though those PCBs are really cheap nowadays.

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nox101  5 days ago

I really wish they'd repurpose public libraries for this.

  • mncharity  4 days ago

    I've seen a Massachusetts public library with an associated hacker space (sewing machines; 3D printers), and another with a "tool lending library" (including a battery drill, IIRC?). And have read of European libraries with a "be a general community space" vibe. So that seems plausible at least.